PEACE AGITATORS IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 5

PEACE AGITATORS IN AMERICA

EXTENSIVE MOVEMENT IN PROGRESS HENRY FORI) ORGANISING A MISSION Br Telegraph—Press Assooiatlon-OopyrtiiH Washington, November 26. An extensive peace movement is afoot in the United States. Peace parties aro planning a speoial excursion to Europe, to endeavour to persuade the Powers to come to terms. President Wilson refuses to identify himself with the movement, but it is understood. that German societies aw active in the cauao. "CEASE FIRING" New York, Novembor 26. . Mr. Heury Ford, or the Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with other paoincists, is organising a. peace mission to Europe on a large scale. He has chartered the steamer Oscar 11, which is to be refitted luxuriously. The vessel will sail oil December 4. A manifesto has been issued, declariM: "The time has come to cease firing. We aTe going to try to get the boys out of ths trenches, to be back home on Christmas Day." ilr. Ford has not disclosed his plans with regard to the proposal to ■ call' a neutral conforenoe. Mr. T. A. Edison was the first to aocept the invitation to join the mission. . He was followed by Miss Jane Addams (writer and lecturer), and Mr. John • Wanamaker (the well-known merchant financier). When Mr. Ford gets to sea he will send out wireless messages in continuation of the campaign inaugurated by women's organisations, who are importuning the President with a flood of telegraphic requests to intervene. Mr. Ford 'declares his willingness to sacrifice v bis every penny to promote peaoe. He* is convinced that two hundred pacific ists can be conveyed to and from Europe at a cost of £1000 a head. GERMAN PARTYIEADERS TO CONFER E&PECTED PEAOE DISCUSSION. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, November 26. Berlin telegrams state that-the German. Chancellor (Herr von BethmannHollweg) has summoned the party leaders to a conference regarding new war taxes. The Chancellor is expected at the opening of the new session to review the situation, possibly indicating peace terms.